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Climate Change Debate Continues

There are some high minded idealists who have fundamentally believed that human reason can be used to immediately and deliberately contrive a solution to any problem, no matter the magnitude. Modern liberalism, with its roots in the French rationalist school of thought, believes that there are no potential errors or limits to human reason. Even the most impossible task of unilaterally altering the world’s climate is possible.

These propositions represent the indefatigable spirit of hubris and ignorance.

China and India show no willingness to even the semblance of complying with climate change regulations. To the Chinese, cap and trade legislation proposed by the radical environmentalist organ of the Democratic Party, means we cap our competiveness and they increase their trade.

China is trumpeted as an idyllic investor in green jobs and purchaser of carbon credits. They are also perpetually pummeling the environment with prodigious amounts of smog and there industrial sector contains few environmental protections. China practices an unrelenting all of the above energy policy with a heavy reliance on traditional affordable energy sources such as nuclear, coal and oil. However, they do trade carbon credits with the European Union in a green Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff blush.

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), in a House Energy and Power subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, groaned that Republicans are “allergic to science”. Still, the science on climate change is not settled and the consensus is not uniform amongst scientists. The climate gate scandal in East Anglia shows that human reason is not infallible and individual self-interest is irrepressible.

One of the gaping holes of liberal orthodoxy (which at times resembles Swiss cheese) is that they exalt themselves as the true omnipotent representatives of the people. But when the people disagree with utopian and economically suicidal cap and trade schemes, recalcitrance is met with back door bureaucratic impositions and political recriminations. In turn liberal policy conspicuously morphs into arbitrary ad hoc decrees and a stark divergence from representing the people.

Ben Franklin said famously, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”. At least let us have the choice.

I am an Chinese immigrant who come to America to seek freedom from the Communist China. I was born right before China’s Cultural Revolution and grew up in Chengdu, Capitol of Sichuan province, China. As you know, in China there is only one party that is truly in power: The Communist Party. The government, which is the Communist Party, controls everything: Factories, schools, the press, hospitals, land, and universities. Growing up there, I never heard of such a thing as a “private company." There were no choices of any sort. We were all poor. We had no gas or stove, no TV, no phones, no refrigerators, and no washing machines. In the cities, electricity was rationed. In the countryside, there was no electricity.

Boxing Superstar Manny Pacquiao plans on taking his next fight on November 24th to China because of the would-be near 40% federal income tax if the fight took place in the United States. Americans for Tax Reform r

The problem of the national debt can seem overwhelming. How do you address $16.4 trillion in gross debt, or even $11.5 trillion in debt held by the public? Congress is gridlocked, President Obama doesn't want to deal with it, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates that we will spend $3.554 trillion this fiscal year, thereby adding another $641 billion to the debt. Caught in such a difficult situation, the problem appears insurmountable.

Just over three years ago, Vice-President Joe Biden announced a new $500 million stimulus funded jobs training program. The new initiative would be aimed at training unemployed workers to compete and attain employment in the administration's coveted field of 'green jobs'. At the time of his announcement, Biden stated that the program would create "real live jobs for a real live future".

When last month's unemployment rate took a sudden and unexpected plunge to 7.8%, conservatives who thought there was something amiss took a beating in the media. Jack Welch was particularly excoriated for a tweet he sent out suggesting that the numbers were fabricated, and others who had similar doubts were labeled condescendingly as 'unemployment rate truthers'.

FreedomWorks is proud to report that the 2012 GOP Platform, as approved at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, incorporates almost all key elements of the FreedomWorks “Freedom Platform”. Most notably, the 2012 GOP Platform calls for both an Audit of the Federal Reserve and the full repeal of Obamacare, two of the cornerstones of the Freedom Platform. Striking similarities between the two platforms are an encouraging reminder of the ground that the freedom movement is gaining within the establishment Republican Party.

Since the 1890s The United States has led the world in manufacturing. For more than a century, America has consistently produced more manufactured goods, measured in dollar value of goods produced, than any other nation.

As a world superpower, America consumes vast quantities of energy. We heat our homes in winter, fuel our cars, and power our businesses. President Obama’s energy policy is costing Americans; gas prices continue to rise and American jobs are disappearing.